09/07/2026
Happy National read a book day. 📚❤️
Before I ever traveled the world, I traveled through books.
I grew up in a small village in Albania, a shy little girl with a very big imagination. Books were my escape, my companions, and my first glimpse of a world far beyond the one outside my window.
I remember reading my first grown up book and it was Bel-Ami by Guy de Maupassant ☺️ I was fascinated not only by the story, but by the people and their thoughts, their dreams, their contradictions, and all the things they carried inside.
Perhaps that is what I still love most about reading.
In a world so fascinated with perfection and appearances, books give us something far more beautiful: a glimpse inside other worlds. They remind us that every person has an entire universe within them, and that the most meaningful parts of life are often the ones we cannot see.
Long before I knew I would leave Albania and build a life in another country, books had already taught me that the world was full of possibility.
I think that little girl would be happy to know that I still get lost in stories. That I still believe there is magic in turning a page. And that, no matter how much of the world I get to see, there will always be another one waiting for me on a bookshelf. ☺️
Here's to the books that made us dream, the characters who became old friends, and the stories that quietly shaped us.
Happy reading, my fellow book lovers. ❤️📖